by David Niven | Feb 14, 2014 | Social Work
“The spirit of social workers still stays the same” The Silver Jubilee of the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) in 1995 was a time of great challenge for social work. Hearing the criticisms, challenges and plans that politicians seem to have for...
by David Niven | Feb 11, 2014 | Children, Social Work
World Social Work Day is on the 18th March 2014 and I’m sure there will be a lot of discussion, debate and celebration of the occasion. The Executive Committee of the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) has put forward a new proposed global...
by David Niven | Jan 14, 2014 | Child Abuse, Media, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence, Social Work
Changing the image of social work I was interviewed on BBC radio about a social worker in Swindon who had been struck off for falsifying records and failing to act when a young girl with learning difficulties disclosed abuse. It wasn’t the bad practice...
by David Niven | Nov 29, 2013 | Child Abuse, Children, Mental Health, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence, Social Work
Who are the excluded and the invisible in our country? Not long ago walking in Bath I came across the excluded and invisible in the course of one day when all the stories and scenes I saw were full of damaged or despairing people. In the morning I was the guest on a...
by David Niven | Oct 31, 2013 | Media, Social Media, Social Work, Training
“For a newly qualified social worker the landscape they’ve qualified into could not be more challenging” What does the world hold for a Newly Qualified Social Worker? Especially with the reputation that much of the media has accredited to the...
